公开(公告)号：US20180287793A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-04

申请号：US15476739

申请日：2017-03-31

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Amirali KHATIB ZADEH ,  Shekoufeh QAWAMI ,  Abhranil MAITI

IPC: H04L9/08 ,  G11C13/00 ,  G06F12/14

Abstract: In one embodiment, an unpredictable nature of the storage properties in what is otherwise referred to as the “lockout period” following the programming of a non-volatile bitcell in a bitcell programming interval, is advantageously utilized in a random number generation mode to read random numbers from the memory. Accordingly, instead of locking out read operations in a lockout interval, a read operation may be performed in that or a similarly placed interval to read a bit state of the bitcell, which bit state is random in nature. The instability of the storage property varies from bitcell to bitcell and therefore may be used to generate a set of random bits from a block of bitcells. Other aspects are described herein.